No ... But LIKE Wild Cougars, not a few of them lived in The Outback North Woods and didn't HAVE enough $$$ to BUY all the Food they needed ... So they hunted, fished (occasionaly, "poached") and gathered to get FOOD ...

NOT everybody in North America is Rollin-in-Dollars, you see ...

If you didn't mean it, you didn't mean it. But don't blame me for trying to follow your train of thought.

It is interesting that pro hunters who are not "judgemental" of anyone except "superior-minded" "city slickers" would get upset at the mention of food stamps, while at the same time defending an inhumane practice like bludgeoning baby seals in the head till their heads are crushed and the bleed to death.

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"If we jump too quickly to the universal formulation, 'all lives matter,' then we miss the fact that black people have not yet been included in the idea of 'all lives.'"

It's NOT a Question of "Poverty" so much as a Traditional Way-of-Life ... (which DOES indeed include distinctly LIITED "Cash Flow") ...

Should they (be REQUIRED to) buy their Maple Syrup and Berries in the Stores too, or is gathering THOSE somehow "okay" with you ... ??? What OTHER Aspects of their Daily Lives are YOU somehow uniquely qualified to judge and direct FOR them ... ??? Just curious ... Is it OKAY with YOU that they cut FireWood on their own Land for heating their Houses and OutBuildings in a VERY severe Climate ... ???

This is ridiculous. People of Minnesota are too poor to buy a bag of potatoes or rice or apples or oatmeal or canned corn or whatever - but they DO have enough money to buy guns, ammo, fishing gear, etc. and to buy petrol for their cars to take them to wherever it is they want to hunt or fish, not to mention paying for food and lodging at wherever it is they're going to do their hunting or fishing?

No ... But LIKE Wild Cougars, not a few of them lived in The Outback North Woods and didn't HAVE enough $$$ to BUY all the Food they needed ... So they hunted, fished (occasionaly, "poached") and gathered to get FOOD ...

NOT everybody in North America is Rollin-in-Dollars, you see ...

If you didn't mean it, you didn't mean it. But don't blame me for trying to follow your train of thought.

It is interesting that pro hunters who are not "judgemental" of anyone except "superior-minded" "city slickers" would get upset at the mention of food stamps, while at the same time defending an inhumane practice like bludgeoning baby seals in the head till their heads are crushed and the bleed to death.

This is ridiculous. People of Minnesota are too poor to buy a bag of potatoes or rice or apples or oatmeal or canned corn or whatever - but they DO have enough money to buy guns, ammo, fishing gear, etc. and to buy petrol for their cars to take them to wherever it is they want to hunt or fish, not to mention paying for food and lodging at wherever it is they're going to do their hunting or fishing?

Give me a break!

Yes, it is ridiculous. But, maybe they do more poaching than anything else, so they don't have to pay for the hunting license, maybe they hike out to the wild places, and maybe they don't use guns and ammo (that's the name of a magazine, btw) but beat cougars to death with clubs they made themsleves, or trap them with monstrous tools they built themselves. Who knows?

It's just attempts to divert attention away from the topic (as usual).

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"If we jump too quickly to the universal formulation, 'all lives matter,' then we miss the fact that black people have not yet been included in the idea of 'all lives.'"

This is ridiculous. People of Minnesota are too poor to buy a bag of potatoes or rice or apples or oatmeal or canned corn or whatever - but they DO have enough money to buy guns, ammo, fishing gear, etc. and to buy petrol for their cars to take them to wherever it is they want to hunt or fish, not to mention paying for food and lodging at wherever it is they're going to do their hunting or fishing?

Give me a break!

Yes, it is ridiculous. But, maybe they do more poaching than anything else, so they don't have to pay for the hunting license, maybe they hike out to the wild places, and maybe they don't use guns and ammo (that's the name of a magazine, btw) but beat cougars to death with clubs they made themsleves, or trap them with monstrous tools they built themselves. Who knows?

It's just attempts to divert attention away from the topic (as usual).

And, as for the people who supposedly make their living clubbing baby seals -

How could anybody possibly even attempt to justify this barbarity?

To say that it provides jobs is ludicrous.

If the people can't find a decent job in the area where they live, why aren't they moving to someplace else to look for work? Why aren't they going back to school to learn some sort of trade? You can hardly say that you make your living killing seals for a few weeks every year. This is hardly a career or even a noble occupation. It's the ultimate cruelty.

So, picture the seal-clubber in action. The fellow puts on his waterproof boots, jacket, and hat. He picks up his nail-studded club, and off he goes to bludgeon the helpless little mammals, until the snow runs red.

But, what, really, is the seal cull all about in the end? It's just another example of the violence of humans against our fellow animals. It goes on all the time in the slaughterhouses, doesn't it? But in the case of the seals, we can see it happening, and so it enrages us.

What's the real reason the Canadians are so keen to kill the seals? Simple. Seals eat a lot of fish, and the fishermen don't like that. So, kill the competition.